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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, and welcome to Dodgers territory everybody on this Monday,

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Speaker 2: a brand new episode.

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Speaker 3: We are your host. That is Clint Pacus. You know him,

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Speaker 3: you love him. I am Alana Rizzo.

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Speaker 2: Lots to talk about today, Yeah, oh my goodness, gracious.

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Speaker 2: We will talk about the series that was with the Giants,

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Speaker 2: But really, the only thing anybody cares about right now,

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Speaker 2: Clint Pacis is the fact that your boy, my boy,

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Speaker 2: everybody's boy, a unicorn, a man, a move boy among boys.

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Speaker 3: Show. Hey Odahani, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's a it's an exciting day for Dodgers fansier Dodger Nation,

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Speaker 4: if you want to call it that. We're talking ESPN's

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Speaker 4: Alden Gonzalez about it. He was hot on the Otani case.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, Alana, it's showtime.

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Speaker 5: Show.

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Speaker 2: Damn.

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Speaker 3: I love that new front end. That is sick. Thank

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Speaker 2: Okay, here's the thing that I'm a little bit hesitant.

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Speaker 4: I mean, at this point, I feel like he's healthy.

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Speaker 4: And I think they saw that. We talked about this

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Speaker 4: My buddy Blake Harris had said, here, it's like, right now,

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Speaker 4: I even like he wasn't after he became an outfield

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Speaker 2: So I feel like I have to throw the babe

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think they've they've definitely plotted out all

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Speaker 5: They're not going to stress him.

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Speaker 4: A spring training type of outing here where he pitches,

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Speaker 2: He's essentially an opener tonight, right, He's an opener, the

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Speaker 3: That's a great question.

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Speaker 4: Christ Yeah, so they should have Matt Sower fully Matt

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Speaker 4: Sour should be fully available. I think they'll wait one

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so things o tawny and then they get Shean.

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Speaker 2: All right, much more to come here on Dodger Territory,

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Speaker 2: where you're going to welcome in Alden Gonzalez of ESPN.

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Speaker 2: But first a quick word from our guys at Foul Territory.

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Speaker 2: covering all thirty teams for ESPN. I know you're very

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Speaker 2: busy a lot going on, Alden, you had written an

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Speaker 3: Why now, why does it make sense, I.

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Speaker 1: Think, mostly outside of their pitching injuries, which is a

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Speaker 1: And I would suspect now that it's getting real, now

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Speaker 1: I don't My concern would be that the intensity of

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Speaker 1: I understand where that might be mitigated in terms of

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Speaker 2: At the very least, he's going to strike fear in

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Speaker 1: For everybody, and they acquire everybody, so I guess why not.

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Speaker 1: Here are the Giants seeing an opportunity, seeing how competitive

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Speaker 1: the National League West is going to be, not waiting

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Speaker 1: until the trade deadline, making that move now because it's

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Speaker 1: what they need. Did they give up a lot? Maybe

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Speaker 1: we'll see in a few years, but one thing we

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Speaker 1: know for sure. Raphael Devers is an elite, elite hitter,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that they added him, I mean, first

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Speaker 1: of all, it's so much fun, Like I can't wait

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Speaker 1: to see how the ns please, I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see how A. J. Prounter of the Padres pivots here

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Speaker 1: because he's not going to take that city down. Ye,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers are going to do something. Obviously. The dietybacks

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Speaker 1: are fascinating in multiple regards because you don't know if

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Speaker 1: they're going to sell or they're going to buy it

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Speaker 1: to trade that line. I just love the jolt that

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Speaker 1: it gives what was already going to be a really

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Speaker 1: fun division race.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody is happier that Raphael Devers is out of

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Speaker 2: the Al East than Garrett Cole of the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Devers has absolutely been Cole's daddy. The San Francisco Giants

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Speaker 2: and the Boston Red Sox will meet this weekend for

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Speaker 2: a three game set. Alden Gonzalez, the ESPN, love the information,

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time. I know you have a busy day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining Clinton and I on Dodgers' Territory.

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Speaker 5: Be well, it was a pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Aldon.

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Speaker 2: Gonzalez will be right back after a word from our

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Speaker 2: friends at Foul Territory.

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Speaker 6: It might be that time. If you're looking for a

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Speaker 7: Yeah, looking for a car should be fun, not exhausting.

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Speaker 7: Everywhere else it's exhausting. You're dodging people. You're trying to

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Speaker 2: All right, I want to introduce you, guys, not necessarily

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Speaker 2: to a pup this time, but an opportunity to see

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Dodgers take on, wait for it, the

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Speaker 2: Houston Astros on the fourth of July at of course,

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Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Four tickets.

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Speaker 2: Now, these are four field level tickets, guys, basically right

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Speaker 2: behind the on deck circle field level tickets and and

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Speaker 2: free parking in Lot I at Dodger Stadium. So four

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Speaker 2: tickets and parking, phenomenal tickets donated by Gidry's Guardian Foundation

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Speaker 2: supporter and massive Dodger fan Anita Olsen. Every single cent

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Speaker 2: of this auction goes to dogs in need with the

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Speaker 2: foundation that I have.

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Speaker 3: You just need to go to thirty.

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Speaker 2: Two auctions dot com slash h o U for Houston

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Speaker 2: and then you bid. You only pay if you have

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Speaker 2: the winning bid. The auction ends in about three days.

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Speaker 2: It ends on one am at one am, rather on

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Speaker 2: Monday the twentieth or Thursday whatever. The twentieth is three

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Speaker 2: days from now, three days from now, the twentieth, So get.

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Speaker 3: Your bids in. The higher the bid, the better it

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Speaker 3: is for the dogs, and the seats and the parking

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Speaker 3: are awesome.

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Speaker 2: So I appreciate that very much for letting me talk

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Speaker 2: about that, all right, Clint, So here we go again.

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Speaker 2: We're facing the Dodgers, but it's a very different looking

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Speaker 2: or facing the Potter's rather sorry, a very different looking

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Speaker 2: Dodgers rotation anyway, could be Wednesday with she and obviously

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Speaker 2: show hey tonight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know the Padres. They gotta feel real bad

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Speaker 4: right now after watching the two teams above them make

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Speaker 4: these massive moves.

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Speaker 5: Well, one is the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Welcoming welcoming back Otani to the rotation to do they

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Speaker 4: already signed to do this at some point in time.

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Speaker 4: And then of course with the Dever's move to to

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Speaker 4: San Francisco, like like we already said.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, this is an interesting setup.

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Speaker 4: You got cease coming off a great outing against the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers last week, Otani opening tonight, and then Casparius potentially

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Speaker 4: making his first real start for the team tomorrow most likely,

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Speaker 4: and then emmach and welcoming him back. It seems like

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Speaker 4: that's lined up for Wednesday, and then Yamamoto trying to

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Speaker 4: put a little bit of an umpire aided stinker behind

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Speaker 4: him on Thursday.

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Speaker 5: They could at that.

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Speaker 3: You're you're a real big fan of behind the plate, weren't.

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Speaker 4: You, Adam Adam Beckett fuck all the way off that him.

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Speaker 4: Somehow Ceb Buckner was worse. But you know, we don't

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Speaker 4: even talk too much about that. But this is a

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Speaker 4: series that I mean, I think everybody is very much

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Speaker 4: watching and uh something that you know Alden mentioned a

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Speaker 4: little bit there.

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Speaker 5: It's like a j Preller.

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Speaker 4: If if that somehow the Padres lose like three or four,

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Speaker 4: they lose this series, his hand's gonna be shaken. He's

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Speaker 4: going to be making those calls. You know how much

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Speaker 4: that dude loves making some trades, making some moves, acquisitions

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Speaker 4: and all that. And the Padres, you know, they expect

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Speaker 4: to be contenders in this National League West. They sit

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Speaker 4: right now three games back. It's the big swing.

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Speaker 5: Series for the NL West in my opinion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and then you imagine that sour and Robleski

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Speaker 2: are going to be used as Bolt guys probably on Thursday,

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Speaker 2: depending upon how Yamamoto does. We need Yamamoto, as Alden said,

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Speaker 2: to get back to where he was in April, not

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Speaker 2: where he's been recently. Listen, everyone's kind of shifting around

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Speaker 2: just because of all the injuries and everything that's going on.

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Speaker 2: So I do believe there will be a time, maybe

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Speaker 2: in July or August, where we have everybody that we

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Speaker 2: were so excited about coming into the season. We'll have

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Speaker 2: all of those guys healthy and ready to go, and

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Speaker 2: we can kind of have no r JM zero zero

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Speaker 2: two one.

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Speaker 3: I am not picking the padres.

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Speaker 5: I saw that.

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Speaker 2: And if you're gonna talk shit, at least spell my

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Speaker 2: name right. All right, all right, Clint? What's coming up

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Speaker 2: on all Dodgers with Clint?

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Speaker 4: You know what, I'm feeling froggy enough. I'm feeling excited

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Speaker 4: enough to probably most likely fire off a post game tonight.

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Speaker 4: We are post gaming tomorrow. But it's a tawny day,

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Speaker 4: this is a holiday, it's a reason to be excited.

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Speaker 4: So just subscribe to my channel. Hit that notification bell

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Speaker 4: if to make sure that I am going live. It's

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Speaker 4: the best way to be notified. Of course, subscribe here

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Speaker 4: as well. But yeah, a lot of great content. I

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Speaker 4: got a video dropping very soon for my unofficial co

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Speaker 4: host over there, Kevin's Kitchen. He's he's coming live from

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Speaker 4: the kitchen with some thoughts about the series and talking

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Speaker 4: about how good Tanner Scott has been, how good Andy

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Speaker 4: Poe has has been. And that's something you and I

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Speaker 4: probably need to do later this week, maybe like a

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Speaker 4: mid June.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I put.

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Speaker 2: Something absolutely and let's just really quick because we have

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Speaker 2: a second here, let's talk about the fact that Andy

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Speaker 2: pot has has been phenomenal.

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Speaker 3: I actually put something in our in our slack chat.

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Speaker 3: I saw that earlier today that.

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Speaker 2: Daniel Starkland at d Starkland on X tweeted Andy pop

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Speaker 2: has the last season total right, thirteen home runs, forty

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Speaker 2: six ribbies in one hundred and thirteen games. Andy pat

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Speaker 2: has this season already. It's June sixteenth, so basically June fifteenth,

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Speaker 2: thirteen home runs, So he's already matched his home run

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Speaker 2: total of all of last year forty six Ribbies. He's

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Speaker 2: matched the stakes already for all of last year in

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Speaker 2: just sixty eight games. Last year it took him one

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirteen games. So I apologize, May the praise

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Speaker 2: be as much as loud as the disrespect, because I

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Speaker 2: wasn't sure he was going to get caught up offensively,

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Speaker 2: and he really has. And he's also done a really

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Speaker 2: nice job defensively too.

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Speaker 3: In the LP. Yeah for the Rodgers, Andy Pot has.

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Speaker 4: He completely somehow reshaped his game over the first week

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Speaker 4: or two, got out of bad habits that he sort

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Speaker 4: of created for himself in the offseason by kind of

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Speaker 4: thinking a little bit too much about going opposite field

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Speaker 4: and also think a little bit too much about being

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Speaker 4: in that nine hole and trying to be a role player.

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Speaker 4: Go out there and hit some dingers, bro have some

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Speaker 4: fun playing the game. And luckily Tasker Hernandez helped him

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Speaker 4: out a little bit with that tale. Also off the

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Speaker 4: schneid a little bit, Homers, and I believe three straight

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Speaker 4: games big stuff for Tasker Hernandez, Big stuff for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Guys, Go vote for them.

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Speaker 4: By the way, how fun would be to have Tao

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Speaker 4: and Andy Potter has as you're starting starting NL outfielders

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Speaker 4: in the All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not for nothing. Will Smith better be the starting catcher.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Dave Roberts is the manager for the and

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Speaker 2: Will Smith has been unbelievable as far as the backstop

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Speaker 2: in the National League. All right, guys, that's going to

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Speaker 2: do it for us here at Dodgers Territory, For Clint Pisias, myself,

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Speaker 2: Alana Rizzo, for everybody involved in the show.

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Speaker 3: We really appreciate you guys being here. Thanks for watching.

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Speaker 2: Again, as Clint mentioned, we are back tomorrow night, Game two.

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Speaker 2: Dodgers padres for postgame, bring a friend, smash the subscribe button,

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Speaker 2: like all the things.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you tomorrow night.

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Speaker 5: Go Dodgers, Happy show, Hey day. Bye,